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Location: Lexington, Kentucky USA
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I have a B.A. in English with a minor in Women's Studies from the University of Kentucky and am currently pursuing my M.S.W. from the same institution. I am hoping to someday work with domestic violence and sexual assault and abuse survivors, with a special focus on Spanish-speaking recent immigrants to the U.S. I am also an obsessive book-reader and I absolutely consume anything related to women… Read moreI have a B.A. in English with a minor in Women's Studies from the University of Kentucky and am currently pursuing my M.S.W. from the same institution. I am hoping to someday work with domestic violence and sexual assault and abuse survivors, with a special focus on Spanish-speaking recent immigrants to the U.S.
I am also an obsessive book-reader and I absolutely consume anything related to women's studies and popular culture. Two of my favorite books are "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion and "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. I also love the writings of Anais Nin and Philip Roth.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Thank you, Bruce, for leaving your song "I'm on Fire" off your Greatest Hits collection! If you hadn't done that, I would probably never have bought one of the best albums I've heard in a long, long time...even if I did make that discovery about twenty years after the rest of the world. This CD is great from start to finish, and as soon as you listen to it all the way through once, you realize why it's an American classic. There is not a bad song on here--surprisingly, the weakest songs are the singles "Dancing in the Dark" and "Glory Days." Songs that were never released as singles are the ones that sound the most original, the least commercial, and are the… Read more
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After being forced to read this my junior year of high school in English class, one of my friends hated it so much that he wrote a song called "Nevil Shute Can Kiss My *#&." And my mother was so scarred after seeing the movie version as a young girl that she gets the creeps whenever she hears the song "Waltzing Matilda." Be that as it may, this remains one of my favorite books. Set in Australia, the book opens with a horrific situation--the rest of the world has been wiped out due to nuclear warfare, and Australians, who were completely innocent in the skirmish which touched off the world's destruction, are the last people alive in the last non-radioactive zone in the world… Read more
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Oscar Wilde's only novel is one of the best books I have ever read. The story is fascinating, and one that most people have heard of--that Dorian Gray, a young, beautiful man, makes a fervent wish that he would never grow old, and that the portrait just painted by his artist friend would age instead. This occurs, leading Dorian down a path of debauchery and cruelty, most of which must have been too horrific for Oscar Wilde to go into detail without violating obscenity laws. The book is a masterpiece in examining manipulation. The artist introduces Dorian to a friend, Lord Henry, who calls Dorian's attention to his beauty, and Dorian, formerly innocent and sweet, becomes vain. It is… Read more
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